North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South, says Kim Jong Un

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for the North’s constitution to be rewritten to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for the North’s constitution to be rewritten to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries, state media said on Tuesday.

The historic step to discard a decades-long pursuit of a peaceful unification, which was based on a sense of national homogeneity shared by both Koreas, comes amid heightened tensions where the pace of both Mr Kim’s weapons development and the South’s military exercises with the United States have intensified in a tit-for-tat.